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Groundwater Extraction Tilts the Entire Planet!

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Hunga Tonga: The Volcano Refuses to Leave the Spotlight!

Although it erupted in January 2022, the Hunga

Experiments Green-Lighted to Manipulate Seawater Chemistry

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Hope to Find Another Habitable Earth? Chances Just Grew Dimmer!

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Digging up Unpalatable News Did Our Ancient Ancestors Consume One Another?

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Digging Kindness from the Earth

While some of our distant ancestors may have

A Great Lake No More?

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A New Era of Geological Exploration in America The Future Is Now!

The economy of the future will require a

Did Ingredients for Life Emerge During a Blast-in-the-Past?

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Where the History of Earth’s Climate is on Ice

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OPAQUE GEMSTONES

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ROWLEY MINE CHRYSOCOLLA

In 1899, Jack Rowley discovered an outcropping in

ARSENIC: THE “KING OF POISONS”

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PIRATE GLASS: Castaways WORTH SAVING

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The Format ion of Quake Lake

When the Earth Shakes and the Mountain Falls

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